Religion & Spirituality - 4 December 2006

What do you believe ? what holidays do you celebrate, and stuff ?

2006-12-04 16:04:22 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-04 16:04:17 · 24 answers · asked by ? 5

2006-12-04 16:00:52 · 35 answers · asked by ? 4

I read it in the bible and it sounded like a blast!

2006-12-04 16:00:28 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-04 15:59:48 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

What was the disaster and how long ago did they live???

2006-12-04 15:56:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-04 15:55:55 · 23 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6

American society is in decay. Violent crime has grown so much in the last thirty years that many people are afraid to go into our cities after dark. Sexual immorality has exploded in our culture since the 1960s. There was a time only a generation ago when premarital sex was the exception not the rule. Now teenagers are having sex at a younger and younger age. Many are even sexually active in junior high school. Young men and women who desire to maintain their virginity until marriage are considered freaks. In the last thirty years American families have been disintegrating. The divorce rate hovers near fifty percent. It is common knowledge that children from broken homes often have more problems functioning in society than children from traditional two-parent families. Adultery is both common and accepted by many in our land. Premarital sex, drunkenness, drug abuse, theft, murder, abortion, lying, cheating, fraud, homosexuality, rape, cruelty and pornography are now a normal part of the American societal landscape.

There is no question that there has been a very large moral decline in American society since the early 1960s (this decline is a matter of record). This decline cannot be explained in terms of poverty, racism and sexism, for these societal elements have been much worse in the past. We live in a period of great material prosperity compared with almost all of recorded history. Yet African American literacy rates and family solidarity were higher in the 1870s (under horrid social conditions) than today, when people in the ghetto live like princes, compared to their ancestors. There is a reason for the decline of American society: we are experiencing the fruit or results of a worldview change that took place in America during the earlier part of the twentieth century.

The worldview transition took place in America primarily between 1870 and 1930. The old worldview which dominated American culture was basically Christian with some right-wing enlightenment thinking tossed in. The Christian worldview had more or less dominated western civilization since the fall of the Roman Empire. This Christian worldview was replaced by materialistic naturalism (or as it’s called today, secular humanism). Secular humanism is the belief that man lives in a closed universe. There is no God who is transcendent above and beyond created reality. The secular humanist presupposes that the Christian God does not and cannot exist—that everything which does exist is merely the product of matter plus time plus chance. The secular humanist presupposes that the only thing which can exist and have importance to mankind is that which is open to empirical verification and observation by man. Therefore, the Christian God and biblical Christianity are ruled out of bounds from the start by the so-called objective materialistic scientist, even before the investigation of reality begins. The essence of secular humanism is that man is the measure of all things. Man, not God, is the determiner of reality, meaning and ethics.

2006-12-04 15:55:19 · 25 answers · asked by ? 4

I just saw that answer on another post. Absurd!

2006-12-04 15:53:19 · 19 answers · asked by GodLess American 2

Cover our faces, bow to our men and serve them quietly?
Seems most western families are two income, should women quit their jobs and stay home?

2006-12-04 15:53:14 · 16 answers · asked by Lily P 3

it's hard to explain; its not like you can see with your eyes

but there is a shodow around them...kind of hard to explain

its like hazy

ps no i am not crazy !

please help me to understand what i am "seeing"

thanks !

2006-12-04 15:52:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I understand the reasons they don't drink it. But why do they try to keep other people from engaging in behavior they consider harmful?

2006-12-04 15:51:43 · 10 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

Some religious wackos want to debate where life begins. Science is perfectly clear about this...living cells are life. Living homo-sapien cells, from zygote on, are human life.

Does this bear on the legal question? Well, what else should bear on the legal question! If we bring anything else to bear...is it not religious babble!

"its not a life cause Im sure its not conscious!". Suppose its not, SO WHAT! The cells are dividing, theres just not as many cells accumulated as you arbitraliy require to declare it, according to you leftist religion, a frickin "life"!

God probably doesnt exist, therefore, to the best of our knoweldge, humans are the highest life form in the universe. In fact, the more humans we educated within civilized free countries, the more we extend this base of intelligence...or essentially be the next best thing to "God".

2006-12-04 15:51:10 · 20 answers · asked by Thoughtful Tristan 1

when one situation after another keeps hitting without let up, it makes a person emotionally spiritually and physically exhausted..what helps to rectify the situation?

2006-12-04 15:50:26 · 15 answers · asked by herenthere 5

2006-12-04 15:49:22 · 22 answers · asked by Mr Hex Vision 7

then burned?...Wow, a bit harsh don't you think? ...And this after God demands the Israelites destroy everything and everyone in Jericho. Leaving nothing but Rehab(the prositute/liar) and her family.The punishment....they(Israelites) lose only 32(?). Not to mention God at other times allows them to keep things they plunder...in fact at this point doesn't God admonish Joshua about them lying and stealing. Now lying matters...hmmmmm.

2006-12-04 15:46:35 · 8 answers · asked by kissmybum 4

Why what about non Christian nations? Should Christians in a public school in Lebanon have to study the Koran? Should they have to study the Talmud in Israel? What about the the vedas in India?

Would that not make sense? How about if there was a town in the United States that was mostly Muslim. Should they prayer be in accordance with Islam?

2006-12-04 15:45:43 · 19 answers · asked by Gamla Joe 7

2006-12-04 15:43:50 · 33 answers · asked by Whatever 5

2006-12-04 15:43:41 · 19 answers · asked by wilmer c 1

My grandfather asked me this when I was about 8....

sadly he passed before I got an answer....

Can anyone help?



PART 1
Do you believe in god?

(my answer was yes)

PART 2

Do you believe he can do all things?

(my answer was yes)


PART 3
Then can God create a rock so big even he can't move it?

I was unsure and upset, he said he would answer when I was older. I am pretty sure I know it, I just thought I would throuw it out there......


I was just thinking maybe someone knows where it came from... anything???

2006-12-04 15:42:23 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

....as Christians? Door to door conversion parties? Why are all the Mormons being so rude about it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV-a1vmZ6y8

2006-12-04 15:42:10 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

who would be the bad guy?

2006-12-04 15:39:27 · 18 answers · asked by Dont get Infected 7

2006-12-04 15:39:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm in the process of converting to Roman Catholicism, and a thought came to me. Roman Catholic doctrine states that the Pope is infallible in all matters of faith and morals. How do I justify this doctrine with statements made by previous Popes which promoted anti-Semitism and violence towards Jews?

2006-12-04 15:38:54 · 18 answers · asked by Nowhere Man 6

Its interesting that we dress down in the real world a woman from top to bottom and perhaps psychologically bottoms up for women.Cant tell - I am confused!!

2006-12-04 15:38:43 · 8 answers · asked by Consultant 1

2006-12-04 15:36:34 · 19 answers · asked by Whatever 5

Isn't he supposed to love his children???

2006-12-04 15:36:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

And did you ask for it???

2006-12-04 15:36:17 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-04 15:36:01 · 40 answers · asked by No Crap No More 2

your not Shiite?

2006-12-04 15:34:48 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous